If you can't get to the vintage ballet slippers, the vintage ballet slippers will come to you. And so will the lacey dolls, classic typewriters, art made from old burlap sacks, and lampshades that look like postcards.

It was all under one roof at the second annual Polka Dot Flea on Sunday, the second day of the two-day event at Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando.

The idea, said organizer Carol Turner, was to bring vintage vendors to a centralized location close to downtown – and, not incidentally, indoors and air-conditioned, unlike most other flea markets and vintage fairs held under the hot Florida sun and/or wet Florida afternoons.

"We needed something in Orlando," Turner said. "People are used to standing out in fields, fighting the wind and rain. And mud. And fire ants."

So just what is "vintage", anyway? Turner characterized it as "industrial, repurposed" wares – "A little bit different from plain old antiques."

Carey Ferrante, with Blue Betty of Orlando, described vintage as "the overall movement towards recycling, reusing and reimagining. … People are (being) more creative spirits and creative souls, and this is what it looks like."

So of the 80-plus vendors, there was a mix of the old, the old reinvented as new, and the new designed to look like the old.

Alongside the antique curiosities in the Deco-tiques booth run by Jack Fowler of Orlando – just back from England with 1940s Belgian bicycle license plates, lace bobbins, diplomatic passports, and watch fobs made with actual braided hair, because that's how the Victorians rolled – there would be booths like that of Kathryn Page, of Mount Dora, a milliner who designed and created all of her own 1930s-style women's hats.

"We're trying to mix it up," said Turner's son Bradley Turner. "The main crowd always follows the same vendors everywhere. What we're trying to do is grow it younger. That's the reason we wanted to do it in Orlando – a younger crowd. … It's the next generation of people who love all things vintage."

Over at the Rehab Vintage Market booth – graced by the giant word "REHAB", as if you could check in for a stay – there was an old-time cash register, antique tin roofing tiles at $3 a pop, and a bin full of old ballet slippers that caught the eye of Karin Wilkinson of Orlando.

"Oh, it's fabulous," said Wilkinson of the indoor market. "I went to one at Lake Lily, and it was so hot."

Some vendors, like Lily Lace of Maitland, usually don't even travel to different markets and made an exception because Polka Dot Flea was so close.

There was Nancy Watson, of Gibsonton, who had a collection of home décor made from burlap, and John Hoshstrasser, of Sophie's Home and Garden of Orlando, who said that business in old wooden knobs was booming.

"I'm selling some now, as we speak," he said.

The Vintage Soul booth out of Melbourne had an antique shopping cart full of mirrors, cowhides hanging from the tent roof, and the classic vinyl album "Music from Marlboro Country."

Kimberly Roserook's booth, Old Time Junktion, had one of the more eclectic collections, with a specially-made guitar case and wall decorations next to an old, bullet-ridden &-UP sign picked up along the side of the road in Georgia, with gentlemen's spats and a tiny spy camera available beneath a glass case.

As for the shoppers, Kim Knost of Orlando picked up a vintage typewriter for her daughter, while Samantha Rios of Deltona walked around with a giant wooden trident.

"No, I walked in with this," she joked when asked if she bought it at the market. "No, I'm going to give it to my dad for Father's Day. For what reason? I can't talk about that right now…"